February 8th, 2012

Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the Safari web browser, but today Microsoft claimed Google is doing much the same thing with Internet Explorer. In a blog post titled “Google bypassing user privacy settings” Microsoft’s IE Corporate Vice […]

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of version 2.4 of its namesake Apache HTTP Server. The new version is the first major release for Apache since 2005. During that time several new servers, including the increasingly popular Nginx server, have emerged to challenge Apache’s dominance. However, while Nginx may have surpassed Microsoft IIS to become the second most used server on the […]

Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com In the recent kerfuffle over the prevalence of the -webkit CSS prefix and the lack of corresponding prefixes for other browsers, we told you that the problem was with developers, not WebKit browsers. Instead of writing code that will work in any browser many developers are coding exclusively for WebKit and that’s a problem. But mobile expert Peter-Paul Koch, better […]

Google’s Chrome development team is working on a system to automatically generate passwords, which would help users secure their online identities with passwords that would be diversified across different sites, and are randomized and thus harder to guess. Detailed in developer documentation on the Chromium Project site, the system would detect account sign-up pages and “add a small UI element to the password field” […]

Google has released an experimental version of the Chromium web browser with support for the company’s new Dart programming language. Dart, which is Google’s attempt to improve on JavaScript, has thus far not enjoyed much support outside of Google, but the company continues to push forward with its own efforts. The new development preview version of the Chromium browser, the open source version of […]

The HTML5 time element pulled a disappearing act last year. HTML5 editor Ian Hickson deleted it from the specification, but then the W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, stepped in to override Hickson’s decision, adding time back to HTML5. Now you see it, now you don’t, now you do again. The W3C didn’t just add time back though; they’ve improved it considerably. While nothing […]

Mozilla launched a new project last year called Boot2Gecko (B2G) with the aim of developing a mobile operating system. The platform’s user interface and application stack will be built entirely with standards-based web technologies and will run on top of Gecko, the HTML rendering engine used in the Firefox web browser. The B2G project has advanced at a rapid pace this year and the […]

We just had a moment similar to the time we first saw content-aware scaling in action, but this time it’s even better — we’ve seen the future of programming tools and it looks awesome. Check out the video above of Bret Victor‘s recent talk, “Inventing on Principle.” Victor has worked on experimental UI concepts at Apple and also created the interactive data graphics […]

Photo: tobias.munich/Flickr Anyone who’s ever tried to optimize a website has faced the very basic question — how long does your site take to load? The answer seems like it would be easy to discover: Load your site in a page speed crawler like WebPagetest and soon you’ll have your numbers. But that’s just it; you won’t have a number, you have numbers […]

The proposed new tab page in Firefox 13 Mozilla is considering a fancier new tab page that will replace the current blank page presented when users create a new tab in Firefox. Like other browsers, Firefox will soon offer users a set of thumbnails on the new tab page with website recommendations based on the most frequently and recently visited pages in Firefox’s […]